EP3437825B1 - Computerimplementiertes verfahren zur erzeugung eines formmodells zur herstellung von prädiktiver steuerung und computerprogrammprodukte dafür - Google Patents

Computerimplementiertes verfahren zur erzeugung eines formmodells zur herstellung von prädiktiver steuerung und computerprogrammprodukte dafür Download PDF

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EP3437825B1
EP3437825B1 EP17382532.4A EP17382532A EP3437825B1 EP 3437825 B1 EP3437825 B1 EP 3437825B1 EP 17382532 A EP17382532 A EP 17382532A EP 3437825 B1 EP3437825 B1 EP 3437825B1
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  • the present invention is directed, in general, to process monitoring and optimization techniques applied to the manufacturing industry.
  • the invention relates to a computer implemented method, and computer program products thereof, for generating a mold model for production predictive control.
  • Patent application US-A1-20080102147 discloses an apparatus for supporting a worker involved in operating an injection-molding machine that includes a neural network in which a prediction function is determined based on test molding.
  • the worker enters a portion of a plurality of molding conditions in the form of a fixed value using a first input apparatus, thereby obtaining a relational graph of the remaining portion of the plurality of molding conditions and the predicted quality value in which the quality of a molded article is predicted.
  • Patent application US-A1-2002019674 relates to an intelligent control method for injection machine to transplant the intelligent control and prediction techniques of a neural network to an injection machine, which has been exemplified capable of deciding the quasi best machine parameters rapidly in couple processing cycles for increasing yield with least loss, and for detecting and adjusting conditions until a desired operation environment is obtained.
  • Patent US-B2-7632438 describes an injection molding system including a hot runner comprising a memory device configured to contain at least one process control parameter.
  • the memory device may transmit a signal representative of the process control parameter to a machine controller associated with the injection molding system.
  • the machine controller may generate control signal to operate the injection molding machine based on, at least in part, the signal from the memory device.
  • Patent application US-A1-20130245807 describes an iterative method for controlling and optimizing a production process of at least one of a material and a product formed out of the compound material.
  • a production control unit is provided and three different parameter groups, namely indicating parameters, nominal parameters and correcting parameters are defined, wherein the indicating and nominal parameters may be selected out of a group comprising process parameters, material recipe parameters and product property parameters.
  • the correcting parameters may be selected out of the group comprising process parameters and recipe parameters.
  • nominal parameters are provided to the production control unit.
  • at least one indicating parameter is measured and the measured values are provided to the unit. If the values deviate to much from the nominal parameters, the unit afterwards sets at least one correcting parameter on basis of the indicating parameter and on basis of the nominal parameter, thereby concerning any interaction between different parameters due to changes of any parameter.
  • US-A1-20020055806 discloses an injection moulding system that optimizes the injection moulding process by removing selected articles from a plurality of articles produced cyclically and tests a plurality of physical properties of the removed articles including dimensions, weight and gloss, together with a plurality of process parameters such as nozzle pressure and nozzle temperature. Adjustment of the process is made automatically on the basis of up to three optimizers, including a case based reasoning optimizer, a fuzzy optimizer and a rule based reasoning optimizer, in order to achieve pre-set article properties.
  • the optimizers can have confidence factors associated therewith, determined on the effect of previous process adjustments.
  • JP-A-2017081071 relates to a molding support method for an injection molding machine suitable for use in optimizing molding conditions by using a neural network.
  • US-A1-20160274561 discloses a method of controlling a manufacturing process having a machine to form a material in to a component.
  • the method comprises the steps of establishing an initial set of operating parameters for the machine, producing an initial component from the machine, inspecting the component to determine its acceptability relative to a desired component, determining a variation in the operating parameters to improve the acceptability of the component, effecting changes in the operating parameters and inspecting subsequent components to determine their acceptability.
  • ES-A1-2532750 discloses a method and system based on the use of an intelligent module (computational) permanently installed in a production tool with the capacity to acquire and store production data and expert evaluation of results in each cycle in a learning stage, which generates an expert model to evaluate each production cycle in the autonomous manufacturing phase and orders the necessary control actions to the production machinery that incorporates this tool for the continuous optimization of the process.
  • US-A1-20160121532 relates to a method which is used to operate an injection molding machine for processing plastics, which has a mold closing unit for opening and closing an injection mold having at least one mold cavity in order to produce an injection molded part, an injection molding unit for plasticizing and injecting new plasticizable material into the mold cavity, and a control system for operating the injection molding machine.
  • a control system for operating the injection molding machine.
  • Stored in the control system is expert knowledge about the operation of the injection molding machine and the peripheral devices of the latter which may possibly be present and about the production of injection molded parts using injection molding technology, in order to produce an injection molded part using interactive contact as needed by an operator by using injection molding parameters.
  • control system means that the plant and process parameters required for the production of the injection molded part can be calculated by the control system before the first injection molded part is produced, such that an alternative procedure for the operator-friendly setting of a machine for processing plastics is made available.
  • Present invention has developed a tool for improving and speed-up the required tuning process when a mold is installed in a non-preferred injection molding machine.
  • An object of the method proposed by present invention is to use the knowledge gained through the motorization of the mold in production, correlating mold cavity data and machine parameters through a generated extended mold model for providing tuning recommendations when the mold is installed in a non-preferred machine.
  • the generated extended mold model can work in the first injection machine providing both quality prediction and process optimization tips.
  • Embodiments of the present invention provide a computer implemented method for generating a mold model for production predictive control.
  • the proposed method in order to obtain injected given parts, also known as molded pieces, once a mold has been inserted in a first injection molding machine, comprises performing the following steps by a computing device having one or more processors and at least one memory:
  • the extended mold model can be generated by using mold cavity data and/or machine data. Therefore, it is not necessary to have both data sources, although having both will improve the accuracy/performance of the method.
  • the injection cycles, in step a), are performed with the first injection molding machine in a set of configurations providing different qualities of the injected given parts or different operation points of the first molding machine.
  • the method further comprises using the generated extended mold model for further monitoring and control of the mold in further injection processes in at least one second injection molding machine (different to the first injection molding machine), and comparing an evolution of said first and/or second group of parameters in said at least one second injection molding machine with the generated extended mold model and further providing recommendations to obtain injected given parts of a given quality based on a result of said comparison.
  • the provided recommendations allow reaching a good quality part, or molded piece, in a shorter period of time, i.e. the process is speed up, so that, the proposed method optimizes the fine tuning of the mold.
  • steps a) to e) are also executed and used to refine the generated extended mold model.
  • said step a) further comprises receiving a third group of parameters about additional sensors of the first injection molding machine such as hot runners, shop floor sensors, or humidity sensors, among others.
  • the reception of the first, second and also of the third group of parameters can be made at different periods of time or alternatively at the same time.
  • the classification involves an additional evaluation of each injection cycle, indicating the first injection molding machine configuration.
  • injected given parts having a quality above or below a given quality threshold are taken into account. That is, the proposed method takes into account both the pieces that have good quality and those having poor quality.
  • injected given parts including defects related for example to dimension or weight can be also considered.
  • the number of injection cycles used in said classifying step involves from three to twenty cycles.
  • the method performs five injection cycles.
  • the machine learning algorithm can comprise a Random Forest Tree algorithm, a Gradient Boosting algorithm, a Logistic Regression algorithm, a Support Vector Machine algorithm, an Adaboost algorithm, a KNN algorithm, a Decision Tree algorithm, a Na ⁇ ve Bayes algorithm, a Gaussian Process Classifier, Ensemble models, or even a Neural network, among others.
  • the one or more algorithms of step c) can include several mathematical operations at least comprising: compression techniques, noise filtering, derivation, feature selection, entropy analysis, complexity reduction, Discrete Cosine transformation, fast Fourier transform techniques, or other base functions representations at least including cFsm or Fourier series.
  • said compression techniques involve operations being performed in a frequency domain.
  • the computer device automatically calculates the best mold model and selects the better algorithm to boost the system performance. Moreover, the computer device automatically detects if a sensor is not connected (or if it is wrongly connected) and recalculates the extended mold model.
  • a computer program product is one embodiment that has a computer-readable medium including computer program instructions encoded thereon that when executed on at least one processor in a computer system causes the processor to perform the operations indicated herein as embodiments of the invention.
  • present invention applies novel Al and Machine Learning techniques applied to the plastic manufacturing process to overcome the traditional approaches based on SPC/SQC that are now available in the market.
  • Current solutions are mainly based on statistical analysis defining process operation windows.
  • the invention can also be applied to other injection processes for other materials such as light alloys.
  • present invention applies state of the art signal processing and data representation techniques to boost the performance of the machine learning algorithms.
  • Present invention can work with both mold and machine data.
  • present invention combines state of the art signal processing techniques, data fusion and machine learning algorithms.
  • injection molding machines and molds can be controlled/monitored in parallel, all being processed in a computing device, or centralized server.
  • the proposed method provides a machine learning supervised approach that performs a training phase were a computing device, or server, (not shown in the figures), having one or more processors and at least one memory or database, learns and establishes hidden correlations to obtain, once a mold has been inserted in a first injection molding machine (preferred machine), injected given parts, also known as molded pieces.
  • a computing device or server, (not shown in the figures) having one or more processors and at least one memory or database, learns and establishes hidden correlations to obtain, once a mold has been inserted in a first injection molding machine (preferred machine), injected given parts, also known as molded pieces.
  • the proposed method works with different groups of parameters about performance of injection cycles of a first injection molding machine 101 and about a mold cavity features 102 (and optionally about other sensors of the first injection molding machine 103); performs signal processing techniques and data fusion 104 on the received group of parameters; and applies machine learning algorithms 105. Therefore, an enhanced Al model including both mold cavity parameters and injection molding machine parameters is modelled and encoded that can be exported and updated.
  • the extended mold model can be generated by only considering one of said group of parameters 101, 102. That is, it is not mandatory for the method to work to have both data sources (mold cavity data and machine data).
  • Fig. 2 illustrates an embodiment of the proposed method.
  • the computing device receives the first group of parameters about the performance of injection cycles in the first injection molding machine.
  • the method works with the cycle evolution of the hydraulic pressure, screw position, screw speed and rotational speed, not limitative as other type of available parameters in the injection molding machine can be also used.
  • the computing device receives the second group of parameters relating to the mold cavity.
  • step 203 the method performs an iterative classification step which includes classifying each injection cycle considering the received first and second group of parameters and quality or characteristics (defects, weight, dimension, etc.) of the injected given parts of the mold.
  • the computer device step 204, processes it by implementing one or more algorithms. This may include noise filtering; derivation; feature selection; entropy analysis; complexity reduction such as Principal Components Analysis (PCA), Partial Least Squares (PLS), etc.; Discrete Cosine transformation (DCT) which performs an inherent low band pass filtering, removing the undesired high frequency noise or other base functions representations (frequency domain and others) such as the FFT, the cFSM, etc.
  • PCA Principal Components Analysis
  • PLS Partial Least Squares
  • DCT Discrete Cosine transformation
  • the output of the DCT has exactly the same number of coefficient as time stamps on the time domain data.
  • the coefficients are truncated to 10-50 depending on the case. This means a reduction on the data up to a factor of 10 3 . It should be noted that these numbers are only illustrative as they depend on the particular case. For instance, the reduction can be bigger 10 4 if the cycle time or the sampling rate increases.
  • the computing device performs the data fusion to combine the different sensor data, meaning combining the different machine data streams and/or mold cavity, providing a global group of processed parameters.
  • the computing device has the data ready to be modelled by the machine learning algorithm, step 206, to generate the extended mold model.
  • the machine learning algorithm For instance, a Random Forest Trees algorithm can be used.
  • Other algorithms usable could be the Gradient Boosting, a Logistic Regression, Support Vector Machines, LDA, Ensemble models, among many others.
  • the extended mold model is generated by fitting the algorithm. This fitted algorithm together with relevant process data (mold id, machine id, number of sensors, type of sensors, material id, etc.) is stored in a file of the extended mold model.
  • step 207 When the extended mold model is generated, it is used, step 207, for further monitoring and control of the mold in further injection processes in the first injection molding machine and/or for optimizing a production process of the mold in the first molding machine.
  • Fig. 3 illustrates another embodiment of the proposed method.
  • the extended mold model is generated, it is used, step 307, for further monitoring and control of the mold in further injection processes in a second injection molding machine (non-preferred machine).
  • a second injection molding machine non-preferred machine.
  • an evolution of the first and second group of parameters in the second molding machine is compared with the generated extended mold model, step 308, using a result of said comparison to provide further recommendations, step 309.
  • the Production Control System is the module in charge of monitoring and control the machine/mold performance in soft real time for ensuring an optimal productivity performance.
  • the PCS evaluates the performance of the mold at injection cycle time, ensuring full traceability and a prediction of the quality of the injected part or the presence of the defects for which the system has been trained.
  • the PCS analyses the whole evolution of the mold cavity pressure and/or temperature and/or the key machine parameters: injection speed and hydraulic pressure. Comparing them with the generated extended mold model by means of Al solutions allows for a near real time prediction of the quality of the part and allows for launching predictive and early alarms when the production suffers from undesired deviations.
  • PCS relays on supervised Machine Learning algorithms, meaning that a training phase where the raw data from the cycles plus the quality controls must be provided to the system in order to learn the hidden correlations that allow creating the extended mold model. Once the model is created, the system is ready to go into production where an automatic prediction of the quality is performed. This prediction improves the manufacturing process by triggering early alarms or warnings (e.g. for a given bad part or a given defect, etc.) when production deviations are detected in an early stage and thus improving productivity and decreasing downtimes and material waste.
  • early alarms or warnings e.g. for a given bad part or a given defect, etc.
  • the PCS :
  • the Setup Predictive System is the module in charge on helping an operator when a mold is installed in a different injection molding machine (second machine). The goal is to speed up it and thus reduce the scrap production and increasing and improving the scheduling flexibility of the injector.
  • the SPS can provide machine tuning hints when production deviations occur even on the preferred injection molding machine, providing machine tuning recommendations both explicit and graphically. For instance: "increase the injection speed in a 10% for optimizing the setup”. SPS requires from mold cavity sensors for an optimal performance and can work with both mold cavity parameters and machine parameters.
  • the SPS :
  • the computer device automatically calculates the best mold model and selects the better algorithm to boost the system performance. Moreover, the computer device automatically detects if a sensor is not connected and recalculates the generated extended mold model.
  • the proposed invention may be implemented in hardware, software, firmware, or any combination thereof. If implemented in software, the functions may be stored on or encoded as one or more instructions or code on a computer-readable medium.
  • Computer-readable media includes computer storage media.
  • Storage media may be any available media that can be accessed by a computer.
  • such computer-readable media can comprise RAM, ROM, EEPROM, CD-ROM or other optical disk storage, magnetic disk storage or other magnetic storage devices, or any other medium that can be used to carry or store desired program code in the form of instructions or data structures and that can be accessed by a computer.
  • Disk and disc includes compact disc (CD), laser disc, optical disc, digital versatile disc (DVD), floppy disk and Blu-ray disc where disks usually reproduce data magnetically, while discs reproduce data optically with lasers. Combinations of the above should also be included within the scope of computer-readable media.
  • Any processor and the storage medium may reside in an ASIC.
  • the ASIC may reside in a user terminal.
  • the processor and the storage medium may reside as discrete components in a user terminal.
  • computer program products comprising computer-readable media including all forms of computer-readable medium except, to the extent that such media is deemed to be non-statutory, transitory propagating signals.

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  1. Computerimplementiertes Verfahren zur Erzeugung eines Formmodells für eine vorausschauende Produktionssteuerung, wobei das Verfahren die Durchführung der folgenden Schritte durch eine Computervorrichtung umfasst, sobald eine Form zur Herstellung gegebener Spritzgussteile oder Formstücke in eine erste Spritzgießmaschine eingesetzt wurde:
    a) Empfangen
    i. einer ersten Gruppe von Parametern von einer Vielzahl von Spritzgießmaschinen-Sensoren über die Ausführung einer Vielzahl von Einspritzzyklen der genannten ersten Spritzgießmaschine,
    wobei die genannten Einspritzzyklen mit der ersten Spritzgießmaschine in einem Satz von Konfigurationen erfolgen, der mindestens unterschiedliche Eigenschaften der gegebenen Spritzgussteile oder unterschiedliche Betriebspunkte bereitstellt, und
    wobei die genannten Parameter der ersten Gruppe mindestens einen der Parameter Hydraulikdruck, Schneckenposition, Schneckengeschwindigkeit oder Rotationsgeschwindigkeit umfassen; und
    ii. einer zweiten Gruppe von Parametern von einer Vielzahl von Formsensoren bezogen auf einen zum Formen eines gegebenen Spritzgussteils in der genannten ersten Spritzgießmaschine geformten Formhohlraum, wobei die genannten Parameter der zweiten Gruppe mindestens die Druck- und/oder Temperaturentwicklung des Formhohlraums und der Form über die Dauer der einzelnen Einspritzzyklen des Formhohlraums umfassen;
    b) Klassifizieren jedes Einspritzzyklus der genannten Vielzahl von Einspritzzyklen unter Berücksichtigung von mindestens der empfangenen ersten und/oder zweiten Gruppe von Parametern und der Qualität oder der Eigenschaften der gegebenen Spritzgussteile;
    c) Verarbeiten der empfangenen ersten und zweiten Gruppe von Parametern durch Implementieren eines oder mehrerer Algorithmen an diesen, um unerwünschte oder ungeeignete Datenwerte der genannten Parameter zu entfernen;
    d) Zusammenführen der verarbeiteten ersten Gruppe von Parametern mit der verarbeiteten zweiten Gruppe von Parametern unter Bildung einer Gesamtgruppe von verarbeiteten Parametern;
    e) Ausführen eines Machine-Learning-Algorithmus an der Gesamtgruppe verarbeiteter Parameter unter Generierung eines erweiterten Formmodells; und
    f) Verwendung des genannten generierten erweiterten Formmodells zur weiteren Überwachung und Steuerung der Form in weiteren Spritzgießprozessen in der ersten Spritzgießmaschine und/oder zur Optimierung eines Produktionsprozesses der Form in der ersten Spritzgießmaschine.
  2. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, ferner umfassend:
    g) Verwendung des genannten generierten erweiterten Formmodells zur weiteren Überwachung und Steuerung der Form in weiteren Spritzgießprozessen mindestens einer zweiten, sich von der ersten Spritzgießmaschine unterscheidenden Spritzgießmaschine und/oder zur Optimierung des Produktionsprozesses der Form in der zweiten Spritzgießmaschine; und
    h) Vergleichen einer Entwicklung der genannten ersten und/oder zweiten Gruppe von Parametern in der genannten mindestens einen zweiten Spritzgießmaschine mit dem generierten erweiterten Formmodell und ferner Erstellen von Empfehlungen basierend auf dem Ergebnis des genannten Vergleichs, um gegebene Spritzgussteile einer vorgegebenen Qualität zu erzielen.
  3. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, wobei der genannte Schritt a) ferner das Empfangen einer dritten Gruppe von Parametern von zusätzlichen Sensoren der ersten Spritzgießmaschine einschließlich Heißkanalsysteme, Werkbodensensoren oder Feuchtigkeitssensoren umfasst.
  4. Verfahren nach Anspruch 3, wobei die erste, zweite und dritte Gruppe von Parametern gleichzeitig empfangen werden.
  5. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, wobei die Klassifizierung im genannten Schritt b) eine zusätzliche Bewertung jedes Einspritzzyklus unter Angabe der Konfiguration der ersten Spritzgießmaschine beinhaltet.
  6. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, wobei im genannten Schritt b) gegebene Spritzgussteile mit einer Qualität über oder unter einem vorgegebenen Qualitätsschwellenwert sowie gegebene Spritzgussteile mit Abmessungs- oder Gewichtsfehlern berücksichtigt werden.
  7. Verfahren nach den vorstehenden Ansprüchen, wobei die Anzahl der in dem genannten Klassifizierungsschritt durchgeführten Einspritzzyklen mindestens drei beträgt.
  8. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, wobei der genannte Machine-Learning-Algorithmus Random Forest Tree, Gradient Boosting, Logistische Regression, Support Vector Machine, Adaboost, KNN, Entscheidungsbaum, Naive-Bayes-Algorithmus, Gauß-Prozess-Klassifikator, Neuronales Netz oder Ensemble-Modelle umfasst.
  9. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, wobei der eine bzw. die mehreren Algorithmen von Schritt c) mehrere mathematische Operationen einschließlich Kompressionstechniken, Rauschfilterung, Ableitung, Merkmalsauswahl, Entropieanalyse, Komplexitätsreduktion, Diskrete Kosinustransformation, Schnelle Fourier-Transformation oder andere Repräsentationsformen von Basisfunktionen, die mindestens cFsm- oder Fourier-Reihen enthalten, umfassen.
  10. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, wobei die Verarbeitung in Schritt c) für jede Gruppe von Parametern getrennt durchgeführt wird.
  11. Verfahren nach Anspruch 2, wobei bei den genannten weiteren, in der genannten mindestens einen zweiten Spritzgießmaschine durchgeführten Spritzgießprozessen die Schritte a) bis e) weiter ausgeführt werden und zur Präzisierung des erzeugten erweiterten Formmodells dienen.
  12. Verfahren nach Anspruch 1, umfassend ferner die automatische und dynamische Erfassung der Tatsache, dass ein Sensor der ersten Spritzgießmaschine nicht angeschlossen ist, durch die Computervorrichtung, woraufhin die Computervorrichtung das generierte erweiterte Formmodell auf der Grundlage der genannten Erfassung neu berechnet.
  13. Verfahren nach Anspruch 9, wobei die genannten Kompressionstechniken von Schritt c) Operationen umfassen, die in einem Frequenzbereich ausgeführt werden.
  14. Computerprogrammprodukt, das physisch in einem nicht transitorischen maschinenlesbaren Speichermedium mit darin enthaltenen Codebefehlen eingebettet ist, das, wenn es von mindestens einem Prozessor eines Computersystems ausgeführt wird, das Verfahren nach einem der vorstehenden Ansprüche 1 bis 13 umsetzt.
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